Thanks for that, the configure script gets to the end with that help. Following the instructions at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting#PortingGHCtoanewplatform , I then try to make includes but get a big stream of errors from make. Why is this?
$ cd includes $ make make: "/arpa/j/jim/ghc-6.8.2/includes/../mk/boilerplate.mk" line 38: Need an operator make: "/arpa/j/jim/ghc-6.8.2/includes/../mk/boilerplate.mk" line 41: Need an operator [...] make: "../mk/../mk/../mk/recurse.mk" line 90: Need an operator make: "../mk/../mk/../mk/recurse.mk" line 91: Need an operator make: "../mk/../mk/../mk/recurse.mk" line 97: Need an operator make: "../mk/../mk/../mk/recurse.mk" line 100: Need an operator make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue Thanks, On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 22:00 +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:42:21PM +0000, jim burton wrote: > > I'm trying to build unregistered 6.8.2 on NetBSD Alpha 2.1.0_STABLE -- I > > have the following problem which seems to be same as this one - > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1860 > > No, I think it's another problem. > > > $ ./configure --enable-hc-boot --enable-hc-boot-unregistered > [...] > > checking for ld... /usr/bin/ld > > checking for path to top of build tree... ./configure[3201]: -v0: not > > found > > ./configure[3203]: utils/pwd/pwd: not found > > configure: error: cannot determine current directory > > What happens here is that configure tries to compile some utility > program (utils/pwd/pwd) using an existing ghc, which of course is > impossible when you're porting ghc a platform not already running > ghc. Similar problems are located in libraries and the Cabal-generated > GNUmakefiles. > > For the utils/pwd/pwd problem, I really don't understand why that > thing is required at all, since it does little more than get the > pwd and add some slash or backslash escaping/quadrupling depending > on the argument passed to it. > > You may try the patch below (and don't forget to re-run autoconf). > > Note that this is the quick hack I did for OpenBSD. If the forward slash > hack of util/pwd is really required (for Windows builds?), something > like > > hardtop=`pwd | tr '\\' /` > > would be more appropriate. And the other sanity checks I deleted > may be necessary in some cases, too, but I really don't see the > point in them. > > Ciao, > Kili > > ps: IMHO, libaries/ifBuildable.hs should die a horrible death, too. > It can replaced with a few lines of shell commands.. > > > --- aclocal.m4.orig Mon Dec 10 19:11:31 2007 > +++ aclocal.m4 Fri Jan 4 13:58:49 2008 > @@ -1098,28 +1098,7 @@ AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC]) > AC_DEFUN([FP_FIND_ROOT],[ > AC_MSG_CHECKING(for path to top of build tree) > > -dnl This would be > -dnl make -C utils/pwd clean && make -C utils/pwd > -dnl except we don't want to have to know what make is called. Sigh. > -if test ! -f utils/pwd/pwd && test ! -f utils/pwd/pwd.exe; then > - cd utils/pwd > - rm -f *.o > - rm -f *.hi > - rm -f pwd > - rm -f pwd.exe > - $WithGhc -v0 --make pwd -o pwd > - cd ../.. > -fi > - > -hardtop=`utils/pwd/pwd forwardslash` > - > -if ! test -d "$hardtop"; then > - AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot determine current directory]) > -fi > - > -dnl Remove common automounter nonsense > -dnl > -hardtop=`echo $hardtop | sed 's|^/tmp_mnt.*\(/local/.*\)$|\1|' | sed > 's|^/tmp_mnt/|/|'` > +hardtop=`pwd` > > AC_SUBST(hardtop) > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
